Anne Charlotte

Bunge

PhD

Researcher

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Profile summary

  • Food systems transformation
  • Sustainable food systems
  • Novel food innovations
  • Planetary health

Anne Charlotte Bunge's research focuses on the implications of novel food innovations for the transformation towards more sustainable food systems in the Nordics.

Bunge is a PhD candidate at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her research focuses on assessing the sustainability of novel food system technologies and their transformative potential for Nordic food systems. She is particularly interested in the broader sustainability performances of novel foods and in the power dynamics relating to “food tech” as a corporate strategy to transition towards more sustainable food systems. To undertake this research, she applies an inter- and transdisciplinary approach using, among others, life cycle assessment studies through a Planetary Health lens. Besides her PhD, Bunge works part-time as a research assistant for the second EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, and Health.

Before starting as a PhD candidate, Bunge was an intern at the World Health Organisation Office for Non-communicable Diseases in Moscow where she conducted her Master's thesis on sustainable food profiling models as a policy tool.

She holds a MSc in Public Health from Charité in Berlin where she was active as a Campus Ambassador for the Planetary Health Alliance, raising awareness on the interconnectedness of environmental degradation and human health.

As part of her studies at Charité, she participated in a study exchange at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana. During her Undergraduate studies in Public Health at the University of Bremen, Germany, she completed a research semester at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg.

Before commencing her PhD, Bunge conducted external consultancy for the European Public Health Alliance in Brussels, disentangling the human health implications of animal-based food products in the European Union.

Supervisor
Main Supervisor:
Line Gordon, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Co-Supervisors:
Michael Clark, University of Oxford
Amanda Wood

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The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

Journal / article | 2025

Johan Rockström, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Walter C Willett, Line J Gordon, Mario Herrero, Christina C Hicks, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Nitya Rao, Marco Springmann, Ellen Cecilie Wright, Rina Agustina, Sumati Bajaj, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Bianca Carducci, Costanza Conti, Namukolo Covic, Jessica Fanzo, Nita G Forouhi, Matthew F Gibson, Xiao Gu, Ermias Kebreab, Claire Kremen, Amar Laila, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Theresa M Marteau, Carlos A Monteiro, Anna Norberg, Jemimah Njuki, Thais Diniz Oliveira, Wen-Harn Pan, Juan A Rivera, James P W Robinson, Marina Sundiang, Sofie te Wierik, Detlef P van Vuuren, Sonja Vermeulen, Patrick Webb, Lujain Alqodmani, Ramya Ambikapathi, Anne Barnhill, Isabel Baudish, Felicitas Beier, Damien Beillouin, Arthur H W Beusen, Jannes Breier, Charlotte Chemarin, Maksym Chepeliev, Jennifer Clapp, Wim de Vries, Ignacio Pérez-Domínguez, Natalia Estrada-Carmona. 2025. The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01201-2

The 2025 EAT- Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems presents new evidence-based insights on nutrition and human health, within safe and just planetary boundaries. New to this Commission are updates to the planetary health diet, measurement and assessment of the impact food systems have in driving transgressions of planetary boundaries, an exploration of multi-dimensional and underlying issues of fo...